Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1990 [PAGE 148]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

136

BOARD O F T R U S T E E S

[ N o v e m b e r 15

Easement to GTE North Incorporated to Install and Maintain a Communication Line, Allerton Park

(24) T h e president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends the adoption of the following resolution for the granting of an easement approximately 35 feet wide and 5,078 feet long on the west side of Allerton Park Road, Piatt County, Illinois. T h e easement is for the installation and maintenance of a communication line or lines to provide service to Allerton Park.

Resolution Authorizing Easement to GTE North Incorporated North of and Through Allerton Park

Be It, and It Hereby Is, Resolved by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a public Corporation of the State of Illinois, that the Comptroller and the Secretary of this public Corporation be, and they thereby are, authorized to execute, acknowledge, and deliver in the name of and on behalf of this Corporation such instruments of conveyance, contract, or other document or documents as to them may seem necessary or desirable in order to grant to GTE North Incorporated, an Illinois Corporation, hereinafter referred to as "Grantee," its successors and assigns, the right and easement to construct, operate, maintain, reconstruct, replace, and remove a communication line o r . lines over, through, and across certain lands hereinafter described and the right of ingress to and egress therefrom; the rights and easement granted to be limited to the extent that this public Corporation has the present right and capacity to grant the same. Grantee, with the prior approval of the University, shall have the right to cut, fell, and remove trees, shrubbery, and bushes as may be required to provide necessary clearance. Grantee shall agree to repair any damage caused to the property of this Corporation by the construction, operation, maintenance, reconstruction, replacement, and removal of the said line or lines, and to idemnify this Corporation and its representatives from liability in connection with Grantee's activities. T h e right-of-way easement shall remain in full force and effect from the date granted and for so long thereafter as said line or lines are continued in service and have not been abandoned or discontinued. Upon termination of the easement Grantee shall peaceably surrender possession of said premises to this Corporation and full and complete title then shall remain in this Corporation free and clear of said easement and without necessity of reentry or demand. T h e right-of-way easement shall be over the following-described property: Two strips of land, being part of Township 18 North, Range 5 East of the 3rd Principal Meridian and located in Piatt County, Illinois: Strip 1: A strip of land in Section 16 of said Township being 30 feet of even width as measured perpendicularly to its center line, more fully described as follows: Beginning at the South right-of-way line of Piatt County Road 1550 N, thence proceeding Southwesterly along the west right-of-way line of Allerton Park Road, as it now exists, to the North Section line of Section 21 of said Township; said area containing 2.00 acres, more or less. Strip 2: A strip of land in Section 21 of said Township being 30 feet of even width, more fully bounded and described as follows: Commencing at the Northeast corner of the Northwest Quarter of Section 21, thence North 88° 3 1 ' West along the North line of said section a distance of 35.18 feet to the point of beginning, thence continuing North 88° 3 1 ' West along the said Section line a distance of 35.16 feet, thence South 37°